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...himself with former King Mohammed Zahir Shah. The moves suggest not powergrabbing as much as defensiveness. "Dostum is feeling threatened," says Ahmed Rashid, author of a best-selling book on the Taliban. "He's looking to ally himself with the King and with Pashtun aligned with the King." The cleaner Dostum looks, presumably, the better his chances with this crowd...
...billion to energy companies. The Administration wants to green-light the drilling of more than 35,000 new methane wells in the basin by November. But environmentalists, along with local ranchers, are waging a fierce fight against the project. In the past, green groups have endorsed methane as a cleaner-burning alternative to coal and oil. But to get to the methane in the basin, drilling companies will have to unleash torrents of water from underground aquifers--up to 20,000 gal. per day per well--which could deplete the region's water reserves and, because much of the underground...
Nuclear power plants do not pollute our environment. While they produce radioactive wastes, these wastes are contained and manageable. The nuclear power industry takes full responsibility for all its wastes and includes waste management costs in the price of its product. In contrast, fossil fuel plants—while cleaner than in the past—simply dump their waste products into the atmosphere...
...instance, upheld the standard for arsenic in drinking water that the Clinton Administration adopted in its last hours in office (although she did so only after a public outcry). With less fanfare, she also let stand a little-known but sweeping Clinton-era regulation making diesel fuel considerably cleaner--a move likely to have far greater impact than the more talked-about arsenic decision. But almost every time preserving the environment runs headfirst into local opposition or concerns about energy or corporate interests, the environment tends to lose...
...standards of most 24-story buildings, the new Austrian Cultural Forum, which opens this week in New York City, occupies a space the size of a pipe cleaner. In a plot just 25 ft. across, the width of the town house it replaces, Austria's state-sponsored cultural outpost holds a library, galleries, offices and a mini-theater, plus an apartment for the Forum's director. But its real miracle is to squeeze more visual cunning and brainy pleasure into a small space than you can find in whole blocks of dreary office cartons--that is to say, most...